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3 years ago Team's Response
If a user were to save two persons with the same name, a user would not be able to differentiate the two people from each other in the first place therefore that's why our app exists to prevent users to add people with same name.
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Team chose [response.Rejected]
- [x] I disagree
Reason for disagreement: Within the application, a user differentiates people not just purely by name. People are also uniquely identified by their display index, and their birthday as well.
As such, I do not believe that the team's response is valid as a user is indeed able to differentiate two people from each other.
I would like to reiterate that I do not believe that differentiating purely by name is particularly useful to the user as collisions in name are very common and frequent. Using birthday as an additional parameter to uniquely identify a person, it would reduce the probability of collision/
Using purely the name to uniquely identify a person may not be optimal, considering that there may be some people with a generic first name such as John, Alex.
This issue could be more pronounced for some users who might prefer not to store the person's surname inside RemindMe, which might cause a conflict earlier and much easier.
Commands used: add x2, with n/ parameter being the same, and different b/ parameters.